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Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
Carrie Fisher
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I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.
Carrie Fisher
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There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
Carrie Fisher
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Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.
Carrie Fisher
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I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
Carrie Fisher
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There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.
Carrie Fisher
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[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs.
Carrie Fisher
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I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.
Carrie Fisher
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What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.
Carrie Fisher
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He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.
Carrie Fisher
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I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.
Carrie Fisher
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I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'
Carrie Fisher
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I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.
Carrie Fisher
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It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.
Carrie Fisher
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The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
Carrie Fisher
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I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.
Carrie Fisher
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I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.
Carrie Fisher
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Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
Carrie Fisher
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Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.
Carrie Fisher
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I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Carrie Fisher
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If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.
Carrie Fisher
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My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
Carrie Fisher
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I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt.
Carrie Fisher
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Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?
Carrie Fisher
